Rivers Crisis: Apprehension Escalates As Thugs Burn Down LG Secretariat After Fubara’s Warning

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By Kolawole Ojebisi

Some persons suspected to be political thugs whose real identities are yet to be known have set ablaze the council Secretariat of Eleme local government area in Rivers State.

This is coming hours after the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, ordered his men to vacate the 23 local government secretariat after months of guarding the facilities.

It was gathered the miscreants wielding dangerous weapons allegedly descended on the facility and set it ablaze which a substance believed to have the resemblance of a dynamite.

According to some accounts,
the political thugs moved to the a part of the building believed to be heavily impregnable to the conflagration. Thereafter, they allegedly broke down the windows and other structure that were still standing.

Recall that Governor Siminalayi Fubara had warned the newly elected local government chairmen that he had privileged information that some thugs numbering up to twenty each have been earmarked by opposition elements to attack various Council secretariat buildings on Monday.

He said: “I’m aware that they are mobilising 20 people per unit to go and confront you tomorrow when you resume in your local government headquarters. Please if they are coming with violence, avoid them.”

Fubara had warned the chairmen during swearing-in ceremony yesterday.

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